Last activity: 06/09/2016, 18:22
UI2: Controlled keywords
Both DCAT and DCAT-AP specify the property dcat:keyword that allows the assignment of keywords or tags to a dataset. Neither specification contains further suggestions on how metadata creators may assign keywords. This means that keywords can be assigned as uncontrolled free text strings which may make keywords less useful for indexing and searching.
A suggestion has been made that terminology databases may be used to help creating more coherent and predictable keywords that improve the usefulness for searching.
This issue has been reported by Hanssens Bart:
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